Diesel
04-30-2001, 07:12 AM
"...Rather than using a million processors to calculate all the individual forces between atoms in a protein for a single folding pathway, each PC in the collective evaluates a different candidate pathway, until one of them finds the key path to a more folded structure. This new state is then used as the starting point for subsequent calculations, and progress is gradually made towards the folded state."
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